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How to Measure a World? - (Contemporary Religious and Theological Studies) by Martin Shuster (Hardcover)

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  • ENG: What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world?
  • About the Author: ENG: Martin Shuster is Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
  • 246 Pages
  • Religion + Beliefs, Judaism
  • Series Name: Contemporary Religious and Theological Studies

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ENG:

What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to these questions and more.

Emmanuel Levinas suggested that Judaism is best understood as an anachronism. Shuster attempts to make sense of this claim by alternatively considering questions of the inscrutability of ultimate reality, of the pain and commonness of human suffering, and of the ways in which Judaism is entangled with the world. Drawing on phenomenology and Jewish thought, Shuster offers novel readings of some of the classic figures of Jewish philosophy while inserting other voices into the tradition, from Moses Maimonides to Theodor W. Adorno to Walter Benjamin to Stanley Cavell.

How to Measure a World? examines elements of the Jewish philosophical record to get at the full intellectual scope and range of Levinas's proposal. Shuster's view of anachronism thereby provokes an assessment of the world and our place in it. A particular understanding of Jewish philosophy emerges, not only through the traditions it encompasses, but also through an understanding of the relationship between humans and their world. In the end, Levinas's suggestion is examined theoretically as much as practically, revealing what's at stake for Judaism as much as for the world.


RUS:

Что значит испытывать благоговение или страх перед миром? Как философски осмыслить иудаизм? В книге «Как измерить мир? Философия иудаизма» Мартин Шустер предлагает ответы на эти и многие другие вопросы.

Эммануэль Левинас считал, что иудаизм следует понимать как анахронизм. Шустер пытается осмыслить это утверждение, исследуя вопросы непостижимости высшей реальности, непреодолимости страданий, а также то, каким образо



About the Author



ENG:
Martin Shuster
is Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests are in ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, critical theory, and philosophy of religion. He works across a range of traditions and time periods, oftentimes engaging fields like genocide studies, film theory, television studies, and various kinds of critical theory. Shuster has previously been the Diane and Howard Wohl Scholar in Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC (2007-2008) and a Visiting Professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2019). For years, he has also been involved with teaching in prisons.

RUS:

Мартин Шустер -- профессор философии, заслуженный профессор иудаики Университета Северной Каролины (США), где он возглавляет Лабораторию философии иbкритической теории и сотрудничает с Центром исследований Холокоста, геноцида и прав человека, а также с Программой исследований капитализма. Исследования Шустера охватывают широкий круг тем, включая политическую философию, этику, эстетику, критическую теорию, философию религии и историю философии. Отдельное внимание в его работах уделяется вопросам геноцида, кино, телевидения и психоанализа. Помимо академической деятельности Шустер регулярно пишет для широкой аудитории, сотрудничает с такими периодическими изданиями, как The Jewish Forward, Aeon, The Montréal Review, The LA Review of Books, The Philosophical Salon. Он также активно участвует в образовательных инициативах в тюрьмах -- как в официальном порядке, так и на добровольных началах.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .63 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.1 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 246
Genre: Religion + Beliefs
Sub-Genre: Judaism
Series Title: Contemporary Religious and Theological Studies
Publisher: Bibliorossica
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Martin Shuster
Language: Russian
Street Date: July 29, 2025
TCIN: 1004984439
UPC: 9798887199511
Item Number (DPCI): 247-15-8221
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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